Women in Love: Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara Dazzle in 'Carol'

It's always been ironic that a writer as misogynistic and phallocentric as D.H. Lawrence, all brilliance aside, penned a novel called Women in Love. It tells the tale of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula; one looks for marriage while the other espouses a more cynical, anachronistic ideology. The twosome turns to a quartet when the sisters meet friends Gerald and Birkin and although I won't spoil the ending, it is not the feminist magnum opus of its titular implication. My favorite line, th...